Generator-jhipster: After installing Yeoman, getting "'yo' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." error

[AmsaveniMidhun]

1. I am new to jhipster. Started with Installation. Followed the below steps,

Install Java 8 from Oracle.
Install Git from https://git-scm.com.
Install Node.js from http://nodejs.org. I used Node 6.9.1 to write this article.
Install Yarn using the Yarn installation instructions.
Run the following command to install Yeoman.
yarn global add yo
Since JHipster 4 is not released yet, you'll need to clone its GitHub repository to create a project with it.

git clone https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster
After cloning it locally, you'll need to run npm link in the generator-jhipster directory so npm knows to use your local copy instead of trying to download and install it.

And tried to create a new project, with the command "Yo Jhipster", i am getting the following error.

'yo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[AdrienHorgnies]

It's not a bug. You must run npm link generator-jhipster inside the directory where you want to create an application.
I suggest you to try and go to the jhipster gitter to ask for help for such cases or confirm it's a bug before opening an issue.

[AmsaveniMidhun]

I did as you said, still stuck with the same issue

[PierreBesson]

@AmsaveniMidhun If you are using yarn, you should use yarn link generator-jhipster instead.

[AmsaveniMidhun]

@PierreBesson Is thats the isse? i thought It can be linked either using npm or Yarn. Tried with Yarn link generator-jhipster in the folder where i want to create an application.

And again tried yo jhipster command, sill getting the same error.

[delverdev]

Until you find the solution, just type the full path to yo instead of "yo". Also, this may helps.

[AmsaveniMidhun]

@delverdev Thanks a lot ! Working now :)

[deepu105]

Why are you cloning the repo insted of just installing it

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, 1:08 pm Pascal Grimaud, [e-mail]
wrote:

Closed #5549 https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/issues/5549.

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[gmarziou]

@AmsaveniMidhun the instructions you used are obsolete, just follow the official doc.

Install Node.js from http://nodejs.org. I used Node 6.9.1 to write this article.

JHipster requires 6.9.5 currently.

Since JHipster 4 is not released yet, you'll need to clone its GitHub repository to create a project with it.

JHipster 4 has been released at the beginning of February.

[kartiksky]

Place your node path to user PATH variable this works for me. You can use with yo cmd.

[asifaftab87]

Each and every thing was fine only problem was path so I set path in environment variable.

This path I set in environment variabel

C:\Users\user.npm-packages

where 'user' is my user name, please use your user name.

Then my 'yo', 'bower' command start to executed
Thanks

[fleko24]

This is maybe old but it may help someone, in my case I've added "C:\Users{username}\AppData\Local\Yarn\bin" to my user path because I installed Yeoman using Yarn

[adithyamaheshb]

I tried all, installing ruby, even reinstalling and installing it. But none of them worked.

Try installing yo with yarn yarn add global yo and it worked finally